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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw
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True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish proverb
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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. -Horace Mann
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Saint John Chrysostom
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He is poor who doesn't have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough. -Jean Guehenno
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The broad highway to poverty and need - Is, much to build and many mouths to feed.

Acilius
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Ray Charles
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Poor people entertain with the heart. -Haitian Proverb
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The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

Nelson Rockefeller
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass
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The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them. -Bill Vaughn
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Come away; poverty's catching.

Aphra Behn
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal
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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. -Eli Khamarov
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Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth
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Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.

Eva Burrows
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. -George Bernard Shaw
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle
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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all. -Mother Teresa
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Teresa
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. -Kin Hubbard
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace Mann
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. -Michel de Montaigne
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela
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Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. -Bill Clinton
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